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Twitter Kicks Off Its Super Bowl Site, Using Visa's Money
Twitter + big TV events are a natural combination, and one that Twitter has been playing up as it sells itself to advertisers. So this one makes perfect sense: An official site for Super Bowl tweets,...
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In Case You Needed Reminding, Social Enterprise Software Is Going to Be Big
Just in case today’s launch of Chatter by Salesforce.com wasn’t enough, the fine folks at Jive Software would like to remind you again how important social enterprise software is going to be, and they...
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Seesmic Raises $4 Million in Funding From Salesforce.com
In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank. The San Francisco-based...
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Salesforce.com Buys Manymoon for Between $25 Million and $35 Million
Salesforce.com has bought Manymoon, the social productivity start-up. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but one source put the sale at between $25 million and $35 million. Manymoon makes...
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Social Enterprise Apps Are Popular, and So Is Attacking Chatter
Get out your scorecards. There’s yet another social enterprise play to keep track of. And like all the others, it’s being actively marketed as an alternative to Chatter.com, the social enterprise app...
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Seven Questions for Salesforce.com's Parker Harris
Last week I took advantage of the fact that I was in San Francisco for Hewlett-Packard’s big summit meeting, and stopped by the offices of Salesforce.com. There I met up with Parker Harris, executive...
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Seven Questions for Jeff Dyer, Co-Author of The Innovator's DNA
A perennial question that companies struggle with is how to generate new and innovative ideas that can lead to growth. We can all list examples of companies that do this well, yet every company is...
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Yammer Tweaks Salesforce in Friends With Benefits Campaign -- Make That...
They haven’t always been friends. In fact, relations between them have been quite testy at times. But the social enterprise software outfit Yammer is having a little promotional fun, now that its...
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Marc Benioff Is All Over This Social Enterprise Thing
If you’ve been paying any attention to Salesforce, it’s probably not a news flash that CEO Marc Benioff’s opening keynote address at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today is going to be very...
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Seven Questions for Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net
Box.net, the enterprise cloud data-sharing service, is on a roll. Today it launched a service that lets Box customers synchronize their data across multiple computers — Macs and PCs. And word also...
View ArticleYammer's New Sales VP Comes From Salesforce.com
Social enterprise software player Yammer named David Obrand as its vice president for global sales. What makes it all the more interesting is where Obrand last worked: Salesforce.com, the company...
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Former Sun CEO Schwartz Joins Board of Moxie Software
Jonathan Schwartz, a former CEO of Sun Microsystems — he saw it through its acquisition last year by the software giant Oracle — is joining the board of directors of Moxie Software, a player in the...
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Yammer Now Works With Box.net and Five Other Cloud Services
Yammer, the social enterprise and collaboration outfit once described simply as “Twitter for the office,” just got a lot more powerful. Today the company announced integrations with a half-dozen...
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Salesforce Is Growing, But Slower Than Analysts Thought It Would
Shares of cloud software outfit Salesforce.com were pounded today, first during the regular session and then in after-hours trading, as the company reported results that disappointed analysts on many...
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Marc Benioff Brings His Social Cloud Message to New York
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff will be delivering one of his keynote speeches at a company event in New York today. The talk will probably be a variation on the social enterprise talk he’s been giving...
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Newly Public Jive Beats the Street
Social enterprise software player Jive Software, whose IPO in December capped an eventful year for tech offerings, reported its first quarterly results as a public company today, and they weren’t half...
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Yammer Adds SAP to the List of Business Software It Supports
Social enterprise start-up Yammer will announce today that its service now works with software giant SAP’s main software for running businesses. The move is the latest by Yammer to integrate with other...
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Collaboration Start-Up Atlassian Acquires HipChat
Amid the current craze for enterprise collaboration software, somehow Atlassian had escaped my attention. Ten years old, based in Sydney and San Francisco, backed by a $60 million investment from Accel...
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Yammer Makes Its First Acquisition: OneDrum
A little more than a month ago, the social enterprise and collaboration start-up Yammer raised an impressive $85 million funding round at an implied valuation somewhere in the neighborhood of $1...
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Why the Rumored Microsoft Deal for Yammer Rings True
For awhile now, rumors have been in the water that Microsoft was interested in buying out the social enterprise software company Yammer. A report in Bloomberg News, plus a tweet about a conversation...
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